Ancestors in Borneo Societies: Death, Transformation, and Social Immortality

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Edited by Pascal Coudrec and Kenneth Sillander
2012. Nias Press.
Softcover, 23 cm x 15 cm x 2.2 cm, 390 pages
ISBN: 9788776940928

 

RM155.00

Death, eschatology and exotic indigenous deathways have long held a privileged position in the ethnographic and popular literature on Borneo. Until the publication of this study, however, ancestors have remained a strangely neglected topic. Differing from classic ethnographic representations of ancestor worship based on Sino-African material, this volume will be not just of interest to regional specialists; it will also enrich the general anthropological theory of ancestors, kinship and religion.

Weight 1600 g
Dimensions 23 × 15 × 2.2 cm